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Medical Xpress / Work-related stress can cause erectile dysfunction in young men

New research in the International Journal of Clinical Practice suggests that workplace psychological stress may impair erectile function in young men by affecting certain stress-management pathways in the brain and reducing ...

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Combined screening and online skills-building program reduces nurse burnout and depression

Burnout, depression, anxiety and suicide are increasing in the nursing and overall health care workforce, adversely affecting health care quality and safety. A recent randomized clinical trial published in Worldviews on Evidence-Based ...

17 hours ago
Phys.org / Some black holes grow much faster than their galaxies

Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole. The few that don't have had theirs ejected during a galactic collision. That's because galaxies and their black holes have formed hand in hand. There is still some debate ...

23 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Stroke risk higher in first three months after cancer diagnosis, study finds

New research indicates that people with invasive cancer face an elevated risk of experiencing a stroke, especially in the first few months after diagnosis and if they have certain types of cancer. The findings are published ...

17 hours ago
Phys.org / Grooming-related messages reach almost two-thirds of children

Nearly two-thirds of Australian children surveyed in a recent study received at least one form of grooming-related communication from a stranger online in the past year, while almost one-third reported receiving direct requests ...

21 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Catching ZZZs: New findings link sleep's brain-resetting role to potential neurodegenerative disease treatments

"Sleep is one of the great mysteries in biology," says Keith Hengen, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences.

11 hours ago
Phys.org / Chesapeake Bay underwater grasses increase 7%, buoyed by gains in salty waters

Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), one of the Chesapeake Bay's most important indicators of ecosystem health, increased by 7% in 2025, according to researchers at William & Mary's VIMS & Batten School.

21 hours ago
Phys.org / Why does Southeast Asia keeps breathing the same haze—and can ASEAN do more to stop it?

Southeast Asia has spent decades trying to tackle haze from forest fires. Yet every few years, the region finds itself breathing it again. The transboundary environmental problem has become a recurrent phenomenon in the region.

22 hours ago
Phys.org / Why a wetter Tibetan Plateau still faces 'hot-dry' extremes: The roles of ENSO and the North Atlantic

Since the 1950s, the Tibetan Plateau has experienced pronounced warming and wetting. However, an overall shift toward wetter conditions does not necessarily mean that drought risk has diminished. On the contrary, against ...

23 hours ago
Phys.org / Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds

Squinting through my binoculars, I scanned the dense branches of a black spruce, trying my best to catch a glimpse of the thin legs of a small black, white and yellow songbird. I was on the hunt for a yellow-rumped warbler—a ...

23 hours ago
Phys.org / New computational method pushes cryo-electron microscopy beyond traditional resolution limits

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a powerful tool for determining the structures of proteins, viruses and molecular complexes at near-atomic resolution. However, achievable resolution is fundamentally limited ...

22 hours ago
Phys.org / A photon that challenges Einstein: According to current physics, it should never have reached Earth

How did a photon survive a journey of more than 2 billion light-years when, according to known physics, it should have been absorbed long before reaching Earth? This is the question at the heart of a new study by Giorgio ...

Sep 8, 2026